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Patriots for Europe, which included Chega from Portugal, is the third political force in the European Parliament

by AI | 09.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Patriots for Europe managed to gather 84 MEPs, including the two that Chega elected in the European elections, surpassing the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which won 78 seats in the EP.

Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, during an international press conference. (to dpa "Threatening backdrop for Orban: EU officials paint a bleak scenario before the summit") Photo: Denes Erdos/AP/dpa

Patriots for Europe, a recently created political force that aggregates the far right, has ‘swallowed’ Identity and Democracy and is the third largest political force in the European Parliament (EP), according to official results released today.

The European People’s Party (EPP) continues to be the political group with the largest representation in the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers, with 188 MEPs. The Socialists & Democrats (S&D) are the second political force (136).

But Patriots for Europe managed to gather 84 MEPs, including the two elected by Chega in the European elections, surpassing the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which won 78 seats in the EP.

Initial projections indicated that the liberals of Renew Europe would be the third political force, but they ‘fell’ to fifth with 76 MEPs.

The Greens in the European Parliament have 53 MEPs, while the Left, a political group that lost more elected members, has only 46 representatives.

Patriots for Europe is a political group that was officially created on Monday. The idea arose after the European elections on the initiative of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, after his party, Fidesz, left the EPP.

This political family replaced Identity and Democracy, which was previously the political group that aggregated the most far-right parties, and with the inclusion, for example, of the National Rally of France, Marine Le Pen (the largest delegation with 30 MEPs), Orbán’s Fidesz, Matteo Salvini’s League of Italy, or Santiago Abascal’s Vox of Spain.

The ECR, which includes Brothers of Italy, the party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was the political group with the largest representation of the radical and conservative right, but was surpassed by Patriots for Europe.

The Frenchman Jordan Bardella, who is currently leader of the National Rally and was the big loser of Sunday’s elections in France, will be the president of this new group.

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